Sonic ’06 – James & Mike Mondays

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I’m assuming the opening cutscenes are rendered on a high-end computer and simply added as video footage. I think the gradual graphics change is definitely to ease you into the shitiness. Perhaps if cutscenes were made with either the actual sprites or a format that doesn’t contrast at all instead of “a lot like the gameplay but makes it look like shit.” NES cutscenes never had this problem.

Since you mentioned the (kickass) opening of DoubleDragon, I’ll mention the superior opening of DD2, which is the same thing except they just gun your girlfriend down LOL

1. You start over from the very beginning because this game does not have an autosave feature, so after you complete a level or do an event like getting the shoes and light chip you have to manually save your game.

2. Regarding the game quality Sega has admitted this game was half completed, they just ran out of deadlines and were forced to release it.

I know this because I have actually played through this entire PoS on my PS3, though the fault is my own I knew it was bad, the cashier at GameCrazy tried to stop me from buying it, but I bought it anyway because I knew it was that bad.

I’m not going to defend this horrible game, but you guys didn’t even ATTEMPT to attack any of the robots while playing as Tails! There was even one of those question mark thingies that TOLD you how to attack and you ignored it. You were SUPPOSED to use the ring bomb to blow up that metal crate with the flame picture to reveal a spring that would take you to the next part of the stage. I mean, yeah that is stupid and unintuitive but seeing how you never even used his attack once just shows how you weren’t paying attention.

Oh, as for human characters…well, there is Eggman. He’s human. Oh, and Maria and Eggman’s…grandfather I think (both executed…shot whatever it was).

You know, to be honest, I think the loading time would’ve bugged me about this game more than the other stuff. I know that was the main reason I wanted the N64 over the PSX when they first came out. I liked the fact I didn’t have to wait for the games to load, like on the PSX. lol

I take back what I said. Good god, the glitches. This game would’ve been taken to the nearest Gamestop. I would’ve given the game. I would’ve paid them to take it off my hands. lol

If thought just the first stage was bad, You haven’t even seen where the game get’s atrocious during the Mach Speed Stages. It’s an automatic running stage where you can only control Sonic by moving left and right while the He’s automatically running at like 1000 miles, and you have to have split second reflexes to know when to move.

Mike, oh, Mike, you’re gonna get alot of hate from Sonic fans over this, did you even listen to any of the game’s Soundtrack? It’s often regarded by Fans who played this game, that it has some of the best Music in the Sonic Series, personal recommendations include the awesome short rock piece that is “Town Mission 4” and Silver The Hedgehog’s Theme, “Dreams Of An Absolution”, but honestly, check out the Soundtrack before you make a conclusion on it.

Interesting, I like that they took scenes from the Dreamcast game and updated them. I’m surprised you guys didn’t mention that.
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I would say this looks poorly prgramed. Tails disappearing and having to start completely over is ridiculous.

Actually, I’ve played this and… yes it is terribly, terribly flawed, but… I like this game. Sonic ’06 was not that bad in my opinion. It definitely needs fixing badly, but if it was fixed, I think it’d be great.

Hey, there are plenty of modders out there, if we could get a PC version of this game, the community could work together and make Sonic ’06: the good edition

James, for some reason it seemed like you didn’t even want to play that game, or even make this video. You acted lazy, dare I say. Are you losing interest? I love what the “James and Mike” series does. Twisting two serious characters into a gaming nostalgic phenomenon, you install serious remarks along with crude humor. I enjoy this. but this episode was horrible. Sorry man. Please for the love of god, do not allow Mike to run the gaming section of Cinemassacre.

1 The game doesn’t make you go back, it just never autosaves. NEVER. You have to save the game yourself, and you can only do it on the hubworlds.
2 The game starts you back with Sonic when you die with Tails because there’s checkpoints throughout the stage and the last checkpoint you hit was at that Sonic part.
3 A lot of the “weird stuff” you complained about like humans in Sonic games and Sonic not being able to swim were introduced in the SEGA Dreamcast game “Sonic Adventure”, a great game, for the time at least. The whole gameplay is a lot more intuitive if you have played Sonic Adventure or the sequel, or Sonic Heroes… still not very intuitive, but a lot more. The game also doesn’t break as much (glitches etc.) if you just follow the ‘rules’ and pathways the game sets up. Don’t try to make any crazy jumps, just fly through the speed booster ring with Tails first, don’t fly over to the bridge that falls apart.

It was quite a pain to watch this, but I understand that the game is not very intuitive for newcomers to the 3d Sonic games. I actually like this game to some extent. 3d Sonic games have never been known to be very newbie-friendly, anyway. I played this after playing Colours, Generations and the Dreamcast games, which made it easier for me. 😛

Well, actually the game its one of the first releases on Xbox 360, the graphics looks like crap but its because of this.
Btw Patrick McGrath is right, James played as if he don’t want to play the game (its sucks, i know, but at least do your best), still, the video was very funny!!

Yeah the camra control is bad, and the controls seems really floaty, but still James you didn’t do that good. Your reaction time is seriously lacking, when comparing you play of contra or Street fighter 2010

Look at Sonic 2 on the Genesis for a moment. Think of songs like Oil Ocean, Metropolis, Mystic Caves & the Bonus Round songs, all timeless. Not one of the songs in Sonic ’06 comes close to comparing. The best songs in Sonic ’06 are mediocre at best.

The only reason you are saying the soundtrack is horrible, is because you are comparing it to a classic game. Think about the music as an stand alone genre. Although it may not catch my ear quite like, lets say Sonic 2. But, the music is above moderate that’s for sure. Let me say. I have definitely heard worse.

I am currently playing this atrocity for myself to write my own review for it. Needless to say, it’s not faring well. Honestly, the best part of the whole game for me thus far is the sound effects. Yeah.

You know there’s a problem with the game when the vast majority of the praise goes to the damn SFX!!!

Considering you guys played this terrible game. I realized there is one more bad Sonic game. I would like you to review in an future episode. Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis on Game Boy Advance. I believe you guys said nothing before 2006 right. Didn’t you review Spider-Man 2 on the same platform. Which came out in 2006 so you could do this one. It’s a shitty port of a classic game. Almost everything about it goes wrong.

Wow, I regisisted just to comment on this. The game really isn’t as bad as you guy’s are making it out to be.

James obviously had no prior experience with newer Sonic titles like the Adventure series. He didnt even know HOMING ATTACK is sonic’s top offense move!

You guys are just looking for glitches. Yes the game is mediocre, and is a bug ridden hell becaue it was rushed but realisticly – YOU WON’T ‘Usually ‘ ENCOUNTER ANY ISSUES WITH GLITCHES IF YOU JUST PLAY THE GAME NORMALLY.

It’s a sonic game. You go forward – not jump around, go back and forth. Mike knew how to play the game but he wanted to have James try it to show the bad points..A lot of sonic games are not noob friendly..

And install the game to the HDD for reduced load. I wouldn’t be suprised if Mike purposely avoided doing that.

Also this game is regarded as having some of the best music in the sonic series….*Sigh* Did you even bother listening it? Or were you to busy lulzing at how poorly you were playing..

No offense though, I love James & Mike, been a faithful fan for years but I love Sonic more! Lol.

They aren’t pretending to make these videos every Monday. They are releasing them every Monday. Believe it or not they have lives. So they probably knock out three or four videos at a time and just release them on a schedule.

so 3 minutes in and we start to hear how much loading the game does, that actually was my own reaction when I first played it. This is the main reason I didn’t even finished it, you spend like half the time waiting for the game to load.

Load for 30 seconds, have one conversation. Load for 30 seconds. Start mission, complete or fail mission, load for 30 seconds, have another conversation, load for another 30 seconds. Yay! Played it for about an hour before I was like… this is ridiculous.

OMG… My 10 year old son was able to play this game AND beat it!!! He didn’t have the problems you all had… Well maybe at first, but he understood it a lot faster and was sitting here yelling at what you guys were supposed to do, lol… Its actually not THAT bad…

Good god. This absolutely epitomizes one of the big reasons I avoid a lot of modern games. Long load times and drawn out cliche cutscenes. I’m a busy mother fucker. I don’t have the time or patience for that shit. Gone are the days when you could pop a cartridge in and squeeze in ten to twenty minutes of gaming before the bullshit obligations of life commence fucking you in the face. Today it takes a good twenty minutes just to get to the fucking gameplay, maybe even more so when you consider most modern games start you off with some sort of dialog heavy training before they turn you loose. I’m not saying all modern games are plagued with this problem. In fact, this may not even be a bad thing for games that are heavily driven by storyline (e.g. Metal Gear Solid), but a lot of games just have no excuse. Sonic is definitely a game without an excuse. Games like this have usually lost my attention before the gameplay even starts.

That had me laughing, but I also could not grasp at how bad the game was. For one, it did not seem like a world Sonic would be in as you guys said. The people in town looked like they were straight from a Sims game. Then the loading, that is why I never understood people who stand by Xbox 360, it was the loading mother fucking machine of the three latest gen consoles. Then the fact there is no continue on a game made in the 2000’s and they make you see all that shit again? That is absurd to the highest degree!

I feel so sorry for you after playing THAT. From my own experiences with that abomination, the bad taste it left was so awful that I couldn’t play a 3d platformer for years.

The only real defense I can give 06 is that the music is enjoyable and the Shadow missions are the least broken, that and the more heavy combat emphasis in that campaign was a bit more enjoyable.

I know the nerd’s bit is on bad games of the past, but the awfulness of this monstrosity is so legendary that it deserves “The Nerd Treatment” and subsequent CD destruction. Heck, 06 was so bad that nearly killed the franchise.

This is easily one of the most brutally awful games I’ve ever watched. I was soooo close to turning this off. James and Mike, I’m so sorry you had to play this shit. I am literally disgusted and will most likely have nightmares after this. Honestly, dear god this game is worse than fucking Cheetamen, or E.T. or fucking Back to the future. Possibly the worst game I’ve ever witnessed.

I heard this game was terrible when it was released, and this video confirms it. A Sonic game doesn’t need lengthy cutscenes, plus those loading times were unsightly. Funny thing though: that “cashier” at the store reminded me of that guy who was faking sign language at Nelson Mandela’s ceremony; just a bunch of hand motions signifying nothing.

Sorry, but as bad as this game is, I only have very limited sympathy for you.

You went into the game not knowing anything about why it was reviled, assuming instead that it was the fans’ fault for being entitled, when a minute’s research would have taught you otherwise. You then failed to notice that you could save in the hub world just by using the pause menu (to be fair though, the game itself never tells you this), then you flat-out ignore or don’t notice clear on-screen instructions while playing as Tails telling you to drop a dummy bomb, which I believe would have led the enemy to destroy the box and reveal a spring. There’s just no excuse for not knowing that, it’s in big bold letters in the centre of the screen.

I was hoping for a proper dismantling of one of the worst and most rushed games of all time – instead, I actually found myself defending the indefensible.

The reason why this game sucks so bad is because it was extremely rushed by SEGA. The creators were planning on making this a great game, but SEGA wanted it out by the holiday that year so instead of one of the greatest Sonic games ever like the creators originally planned, we got this half-finished, unpolished piece of garbage. If you want to play good 3D Sonic games, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 and Sonic Heroes will serve you well. The gameplay is better and more ironed out (though SA1 is a little clunky due to being the first major 3D Sonic game, but still good nonetheless), the stories in the Adventure games (especially SA2) are pretty good for the Sonic franchise, and the voice acting is great. Even if you hate the English voices, the Adventure games let you switch to the Japanese track, which is pretty damn good. Not many games let you do that, so I was very happy to have the option. So yeah, play those games for a good 3D Sonic experience.

I never had those issues with the PS3 version James and Mike. As never played the X-BOX 360 version I don’t know for sure; but since I don’t see it in the PS3 version makes me believe this is only in the X-BOX 360 version.

You hit the nail right on the fucking head guys. The game was not finished and they pushed it out the door anyways. Gotta make sure the new sonic game is ready for the xmas season for all the stupid kiddies to buy! Gotta make our 4th quarter profits because our fiscal year projections aren’t doing well! Gotta do right by our shareholders instead of our customers!! And then failing to do right for both!!

You guys really need to play The Last Of Us. It’s a game that came out in 2013 about a man named Joel and a girl name Ellie. They suffer to survive in a post-pandemic world riddled with infected known as the cordyceps. Basically, zombies. But zombies aren’t the only thing they are defending themselves from. Survivors are killing their own. This is a need to play for any zombie fan! I’d love to see James and Mike try out this game on the James and Mike Mondays.

When i first have played on playstation 1 for the first time i was having a hard time trying to find the save in some of the first games i have played.The game probably has a save feature somewhere in the menu in order to save after doing something importand.Or maybe it is not set up in the ayto save function.Now if those doesn’t exist then the game is suck really hard.